Bend, but don't break...

i really like bamboo.

one thing i wish i could've taken back from Japan with me was a bamboo staff. they had them lying around everywhere at school; in the janitor's closet, in the locker room, just about anywhere. i should've tried to buy one at the 100yen store/Daiso lol...but alas i prbbly wouldn't have been able to take it home with me on the plane. it would've been a cool souvenir; a walking stick to use when i'm an old fart, and a "hobo-stick" that i could tie my lunch too with a cloth. that would be coool...

BUT, even though that didn't work out, at least i brought back a t-shirt:





this one was from Kyoto, in the basement of some multi-level chain store that sold all sorts of random stuff called Loft.




stand tall; bend, but don't break.